Barrington River family property, rural neighbours during lambing season and Otto as 500-year-old Arthur. The Nikon FM again. Trusty friend I will not forsake just because I have a buttery Zenit now.
The whole roll #1 can be found here (where you can read about the origins of this project). Other “Whole Rolls” are here. I’ve put the details of the film stock, camera dev and scanning under the images so those who don’t care don’t have to read about it.
The last two whole rolls were taken during the same weekend as this one. For a few days, I was walking around the bush with three cameras hanging from various parts of my body, knocking into children (who have learned to roll their eyes at their crazy artist mum and I do not blame them) and backing into trees.
Favourites include the mouldy makrut lime, the water gum leaves coated in morning dew, my brother building a fire and Otto dressed as a very old man.
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Sometimes the burn enhances an image, but not this time.
Dewy water gum leaves.
And, because I’m working on not just taking portrait photos, here’s a landscape of the same.
Bed and window (rumpled sheets).
You can’t really see it, but there’s a kangaroo in this picture.
My children were waiting impatiently in the car while I failed to photograph the kangaroo in the rain. It was the stress I felt, knowing they were probably a bit mad at me, that caused me to frame the car so, so badly.
Mid-meltdown.
Rock and wood.
This passage through the trees by the billabong is so lovely and magical in the afternoon sun, but it’s much more easily captured on colour film.
Dewy ground cover by the billabong.
Aerial view.
Elsie wandering with her paper Woolies bag, collecting interesting bush treasures.
Sunbeams on dead billabong weed.
Boring tree photo.
Double exposure I think? Of Elsie. It worked.
Weird bug egg web stuff that diffused the light really beautifully.
Mouldy Makrut lime.
Spiderweb on a weedy plant.
Oliver builds a fire.
These photos don’t convey the difficulty we had lighting this fire. Everything was moist.
Another angle on the property better captured with colour, but hard to resist photographing.
Moon over the gums.
Coffee pot. I could fill a book with empty coffee pot photos one day.
Double exposure of Otto and maidenhair fern.
Elsie with a piece of reed she collected.
Mum holds a baby lamb. Two days old and already so big!
Sheepies.
Sheepies with matching ear-shadow-eyepatches.
Sheepies welcoming their babies back into the herd after our cuddles.
Sheepies going in various directions.
Mr. Patmore tells us something interesting.
Otto hangs over the fence, watching sheepies.
The kids pose with the lamb.
And continue to pose. The lamb had a totally normal butt, despite appearances here.
Sweet lamb face and also sweet Otto face.
Lamb feet.
A field of nettle.
500-year-old Arthur.
(Otto dressed up to celebrate 100 days of kindy which is apparently a thing.)
This was a roll of Kentmere 400. I shot this on the Nikon FM with a Nikkor 50mm f1.8 prime.
The roll was developed by Les Porter in Newcastle and scanned by me using my Valoi scanning set up.
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So many rolls I need to catch up on. Love this Lily.